St. Paul daily globe., 1887-12-17

men of this generation can also crown
their brows with the laurel wreaths of
new triumphs over all the. obstacles
which thwart our advancement in the
elements of true national greatness.
While these delegates were preparing
to assemble in counsel for their patri-
Otic work as dutiful citizens they and
all their cOuntrymen were aStOunded by
a message from the
tDEMOCRATIC CHIEF MAGISTRATE
Of.the United States which abandoned all
the preeedents of his predecessors. The
constitution requires him to give con-
gress information of the state of the
Union. Every president from Wash
ingtOn to Arthur has annually per-
formed this duty with dignity. This
president has descended SO far from
their practice as to allow himself to con-
vert this constitutional duty into parti-
san speech for the complete overthrow
of a policy recommended by the found
erS of the government and especially in
dOrsed by his earliest predecessors i'll
office. We therefore call the attention
of our countrymen to the facts of their
own recent history under the influence
Of a policy of protection. The princi-
pie of
4 PROTECTIVE TARIFF
was adopted in 1861, during the war of
the Rebellion. For four years after its
adoption the war continued paralyZing
business and industries and rendering
large portion of the country overrun by
the cOntending armies almost a waste,
and yet such has been the beneficient
influence and effect of the protective
system upon the country, that to-day
there is not another example to be
found in the world or in the records of
the past where a nation has ever made
the progress we have made during a
like period of time. The population of
the country i'll 1860 was but fraction
over 30,000,000: to-day il is over 60.000.-
600. In 1850 the national wealth of
the country was computed at sixteen
thousand millions of dollars: now it is
over sixty thousand millions. In 1860
we had but a fraction over $4,000 miles
of railroads: to-day we have not less
than 10000 miles. In 1860 the manu-
factured commodities of our country
were 81, 500, 10000 to-day they amount
to over $1,000. 100000. Our foreign COM
merce has doubled since 1860, and our
internal commerce is more than Sl.000.-
000.C00 year. while our working peO-
pie have on deposit in the savings insti-
tutiOnS of the country over 81. 100. eco. COO.
To-day in wealth. power, grandeur and
civilization the United states stands
first among tie nations of the world.
The United States while extending
their power and increasing their
wealth as nation. have developed
their resources. built up their
industries. and given employment to
our people to such all extent as to make
the nation in most things independent
of foreign production for the commOdi-
ties and neceSSarieS which our people
require, and at less cost TO pay for SINH
lar articles before 1850. when we had
comparative free trade, SO that to-day
labor is better paid and manufactured
commodities cheaper i'll price 10 all our
people than they were before the pres
ent protective system was adopted.
These important results have been ac-
cOmpiished by the vast increase of home
competition. with its concurrent adj
vantage of an equal increase in employ
ment of labor. both skilled aud un-
skilled, and in the recOmpense
of labor. 1t has been accomplished
also by a change in the bal
ance of trade with foreign coun-
tries enabling us TO retain at home the
gold and silver products of our mines
and our earnings, instead of sending
them abroad for the entrenchment of
aliens. Consequently in proportion as
our capital increased the rates of in
tereSt were reduced to degree never
before known, leSSening the charges on
farms and facilitating all mercantile
manufacturing enterprises. We, there
fore. appealing to the foregoing history
of the Republican party, and that of the
country identified with it, make
TIE FOLLOWING DECLARATIONS:
hn IN
abandon the policy OF home protection.
on which our unexampIed national pro-
greSS and prosperity are founded
SecOnd-The effect of the Democratic
policy would be disastrous by transfer
ring many of our industries..tO England,
and rObbing our working people of
their employment and wages for the
benefit of British manufacturers by eX-
hausting our accumulated capital in the
payment of foreign debts incurred for
imported merchandise, and by damag-
ing the entire system of an industrial
and commercial intercourse. We pro-
test against it in the name of all Ameri-
can labor and of all American enter
prise.
Third-We recognize in the message
of the head of the Democratic party
tender to our country of the choice be-
tween supporting the laborers and the
industries of Great Britain and Europe
generally on the one hand, and OH the
other the support of the labOring men
and industrial enterprises of America.
We respectfully decline the former.
which he recommends, and will stand
by our people when we elect a preSi-
dent.
Fourth-The principle of protection is
not founded upon the interests of any
one section. or of any one class of i'll
dividualS, but upon the interests of the
entire cOuntry-itS supreme object to
render America Independent of Europe;
to keep our money at home and give
to our working people; 10
home competition for foreign;
to build up towns and villages; to en-
courage agriculture and enhance the |
value of farms; to provide home markets |
for the farmer: to adapt our manufac- |
lures TO our domestic wants; to promote |
the opening of rapid and cheap COM
between the states and ter
TO open mines. and to develop |
all the vast resources of our country so
richly blessed of God in all that is need |
ed to make people great, cOntented |
and happy.
Fifth-While the Republican party |
has since the war repeatedly cut down |
taXatiC::, and has uniformly. when in /
power. kept the surplus within safe |
limits, the Democracy have shown them |
selves incompetent for either duty, and |
by perSistently refusing any reduction |
of taxes unless coupled with destruct-
i've assault on American industries are |
responsible for the accumulation of the |
existing surplus and all the dangers it |
involves. We believe that only the res
tOration of Republican supremacy gives |
assurance of uniting reduced taXes.a re-
vised tariff and limited surplus with the |
preservation of the policy which alone |
saves us from becoming the commercial |
slaves of Europe.
SiXth-The continued refusal of the |
Democratic house of representatives TO |
admit territories having population of |
high character and intelligence exceed |
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